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Butt. p. 178 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 422. Swinhoe, Trans 

 Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 318. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 141. Fruhstorfer, Iris 

 1910, p. 7.5. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing with the usual three sub 

 apical white dots, an indistinct large dark spot or patch at the end of the cell, and a 

 discal series of similar marks, and indications of a similar but smaller patch towards the 

 base in the interno-median interspace. Hindtaing with the lower third of the wing pure 

 white, a broad discal space from the costa to the white border paler than the rest of the 

 wing, the upper spots of the usual discal series traceable, some small black .spots on 

 the margin in the white band ; the cilia of the white portion white, the cilia of the 

 rest of the wing and of the forewing brown. Underside. Forewing paler brown, 

 the hinder marginal area paler than the rest of the wing, the sub-apical dots as 

 above. Hindwing pure white, the upper two-thirds suffused with blue, the suflusion 

 darkening towards the base, the costa and apex narrowly sutfused with brown, 

 the discal spots small and suffused, the marginal spots in the white area larger than 

 they are on the upperside ; frons pure white, with brown sides ; body beneath and the 

 legs white ; head and body above concolorous with the wings. 



Female similar to the male, but in the hindwing the white .sjjace is deeper, the 

 black discal spots and the black marginal spots on the white border much larger and 

 more prominent ; on the underside in some examples there are two white dots in the 

 median interspaces in the forewing, and in the hindwing the blue suffusion is less, 

 making the wing more extensively pure white, the msirginal .spots are often confluent, 

 and the discal series of black spots only represented by the uppermost one. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^, ? If^ to l-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sylhet, Sikkim, Assam. 



Distribution. — The types are marked Bengal, but undoubtedly in error ; we have 

 received many- examples from the Khasia Hills, and have both sexes from Sylhet and 

 Sikkim ; Elwes also records it from Sikkim. 



Menaka Group. 



TAGIADES MENAKA. 



Plate 769, figs. 3, <? , 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 



Goniloha menaka, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 246 (18-57). 



Pterygospidea menaka, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 778. 



Tagiades menaka, Butler, Eat. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 96. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 373, and 



1882, p. 262. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 538. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 95 (1891) ; id. 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 58 ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 54; id. Journ. Bo. Xat. 



Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 142. Swinhoe, 



